“Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar Has Said He Will Pull State Funding for the Country’s National Film Honors, The Ophir Awards Night. Shai carmeli-pollak’s Drama Follows A 12-YEAR-ELD Palestinian Boy Living Under Occupation in The West Bank Who Risks His Life”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Shai carmeli-pollak’s Drama Follows A 12-YEAR-ELD Palestinian Boy Living Under Occupation in The West Bank Who Risks His Life, Dodging MilitaryPoints Tel AVIV. Under the System Set Up by the israeli Academy of Film and Television, The Ophir Best Film Winner Is Also Automatical Israel’s Submission for the OsCars in the Best International.
In a statement from the israeli culture ministry on Wednesday, Zohar Said the Win for The Sea Was “Disgraceful,” Given the Film’s Negative Portrayal of Israeli Soldiers.
“There is no greater slap in the face of israeli Citizens than the Embarrassing and Detached Annual Opir Awards Ceremony,“ The Statement Report Asraeli Media. Starting Next Year, Zohar Said, The “Pathetic Ceremony” will “No Longer Be Fundated by TaxPayers’ Money. Under My Watch, Israeli Citizens Will Nota Theater for Heroic Soldiers. ”
Zohar Has Had the Ophir Awards in His Sights Since this Year’s Nominations Were Announced. In addition to The SeaBEST FILM CONTENDERS INCLUDED NADAV LAPID’S YES – A BITING SATIRE ATTACKING The MORAL COMPricity of Israeli Society with the Humanitarian Crisis Unfolding in Gaza – and Natali Braun’s Oxygen About A Mother Fighting to Pull Her Son Out of Military Service. In Respons, Zohar Threated to Cut Funding for the Awards, Saying they Were Promoting Palestinian Narratives Over National Interes. YES Won Best Soundtrack and Best Editing Honors on Tuesday Night. Oxygen WAS SNUBBED.
This year’s Ophir Awards, Held Just Hours After A un Independent Commission Issued A Report Finding That Israel Is Committing Gencide in Gaza, Was A Somber Affair, With Many ATEENCE The War, the Highlighting Both the Fate of Israeli Hostages Abducted Durying the Hamas-Pel October 7, 2023 Terror Attacks and the Devastation Wrouphht by Israel’s Military Operation in the Gaza.
Thirteen-Year-Old Muhammad Gazawi, Who Won Best Actor for His Starring Role in The SeaUSED HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH TO CALL FOR ALL CHILDRONN EVERYWHERE “TO LIVE AND DREAM WITHOUT WARS.” His co-star khalifa Natour, who won best Supporting Actor, Did Not At the Ceremony. But A Statement Read on His Behalf Condemned the Ongoing War: “Following the Army’s Entry Into Gaza and the Genocide that Frigens me Greatly, I Cannot Finds to DESCRIBE. Else Becomes Secondary to Me.
Israel’s Traditionally Left-Wing Film Industry Has Come Under Fire from All Fronts. A Group of More than 1,300 Filmmakers, Including Such Bold-Faced Names As Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, and Tilda Swinton, Has Backed A Pledge from Activist GrouP. Boycott of Israeli Film Institutions and Companies That Are “Implicated in Genocide and Apartheid Against The palestinian People.”
Veteran Director Uri Barbash (Beyond the Walls, Nitza’s Choice), Who Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ophirs Tuesday Night, Delivered An Impassioned Speech Condemning The Actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government and Culture and Culture and Culture and Culture. Boycott. HE INSTEAD Called for Solidarity
“We have a chosen, we will strike and protest, and we will Create, All of Us Together, Jews and Arabs, Religious and Secular,“ He Said. “All of US Together Will Eramicate The Evil from Our Beloveded Land. The Sanctity of Life, The Preservation of Life, and Human Dignity Must Have no Ethnic or Geographicala. All The Hostages Back to Their Families.